A Beautiful Mind (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HE SAW THE

WORLD IN A WAY

NO ONE COULD HAVE

IMAGINED.

 

 

Nash's theories have influenced

global trade negotiations, national labor relations,

and

even breakthroughs in evolutionary biology.

A Beautiful Mind (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles.  The story begins in the early years of a young prodigy named John Nash. Early in the film, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.

It was well received by critics, but the narrative of the film differs considerably from the actual events of Nash's life. The film has been criticized for this, but the filmmakers had consistently said that the film was not meant to be a literal representation.

One difficulty was in portraying stress and mental illness within one person's mind. Sylvia Nasar stated that the filmmakers "invented a narrative that, while far from a literal telling, is true to the spirit of Nash's story". The film made his hallucinations visual and auditory when, in fact, they were exclusively auditory.

The pen ceremony tradition at Princeton shown in the film is completely fictitious. The film has Nash saying around the time of his Nobel prize in 1994: "I take the newer medications", when in fact Nash did not take any medication from 1970 onwards, something Nash's biography highlights. Howard later stated that they added the line of dialogue because it was felt as though the film was encouraging the notion that all schizophrenics can overcome their illness without medication.

Nash also never gave an acceptance speech for his Nobel prize because laureates do not do that as portrayed in the film; the award ceremony is conducted without any such speeches. While a laureate would commonly present a lecture at a Swedish university, this also did not happen in Nash's case due to fears the organisers had regarding his mental instability.

 

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JIMMY FRANKLIN WOLFE

 

 

Uncle Jimmy, second from left wearing white shirt, was institutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia shortly after burning down the home of a local family;

him claiming:

"the radio man told me to."

 

That same night he burns down a home as instructed by auditory hallucinations he refers  to

as

"the radio man"

was

the same night I was born...

January 14, 1962.

 

 

My mother, bottom row wearing wearing white dress, claims Uncle Jimmy was one of two brothers she named me after.

 

Why...(?)

because they never had children of their own.